Which is many ways one of our worst nightmares. No additional known incidents at this time. Isis sent a message two weeks ago saying we will see you in new york for christmas soon. Thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goal. This is the most resilient place on earth, weve proven it over and over again. We proved it on 9 11 and prove it again today. We are new yorkers, we dont live in fear. Adam new york city is on high alert after this chilling christmas threat was followed by the attack on Port Authority earlier this month that left four people injured. Isis is releasing this gruesome propaganda promising to kill people who are drunk celebrating new years eve and this is ominous new york city is beefing up security at the highprofile event that is expected to draw nearly 2 Million People this year and millions more on Television Watching the celebration. Note, there are currently no Credible Threats to new york city or boston. Now with the latest on the times square n
There are a couple of areas that we are clear we need to update. One is the concept of an essential Community Provider. Thats not something that we were really looking at before. Are those now included in your networks theres also just issues in the new environment. Are we applying it to all man e managed care. Do you go out to ppos . Do you go out to others, as well chlts were having weekly calls. In fact, our next one is thursday, july 24 00th at 130 p. M. Mark it on your calendars. Be there. Weve received comments from about 30 different i. Groups so far. Were going to go and see where we need to update our model. This is always going to be our number one point. We dont want it one size fits all, federal government comes 234 and this is the time and distance for each type of provider. I dont know about you, but wyoming is just a tad different than los angeles. What are the standards . What about certain populations . As has been braugts up, we need to balance. Theres no sense going
Election coverage starting at 8 00 tonight. Neil, great to see you. Good to see you, my friend. Gerri tell me, what is the mood tonight in your view . You spelled t out very nicely right there, gerri. As you and i discussed onair, offair, the number and statistics are the administrations friend and trend. They have been getting better. Were well off the mat but a lo3 of Americans Still feel down for the count. In other words they dont feel this recovery. Maybe owing to my age, i can remember the same type of argument that the bush administration, sr. Was making 1992 running for reelection. Statistically he was right getting better. And not enough americans felt it and bill clinton waltz into the white house. The same sort of ainge is still there right now. It could hurt democrats. A lot of polls are very, very tight. It would take six net gains for republicans to capture the senate. Were not quite there. Gerri were not quite there. I wanted to ask you which of the races youre really in
That providers can communicate more openly and easily sharing information between them about patients. Thats especially important and helpful with Electronic Health platforms when the providers are on the same platform. This can reduce duplicate testing and even conflicting treatment. Payers and providers can share more Meaningful Health care data, Work Together on Health Care Analytics to determine what is the right improvement we can make to quality and cost . The providers within a clinically integrated network can be more familiar with each others, not just their medical practice protocols but their administrative practices. Allowing handoffs to be much smoother with less error. Then also these tighter relationships allow these providers to comment with the payers back to them where there are Service Needs and things that need to be improved. So ill go on to what we also want to talk about, though, and that is there needs to be adequate Consumer Protection and education. Especially
Coverage for example in one market where we are the narrower provider we found they had no access to pet scans. Another glitch we found as their exclusive Network Provider they had not contracted with any Lamp Services or radiation therapy. We can provide these services but frankly getting Outpatient Lab testing at your hospital may not be as convenient as some of the labs that are available with better parking and hours. Finally id like to reemphasize the reality of the marketplace is that price dominates. Premiums is what people are most likely to look at. Those with low income still leave outofpocket medical expenses that are unaffordable below this operation. As a result, even modest out pocket costs create affordability programs. This is from one of our markets. A married couple. Income 48,000 a year. They chose a bronze plan. Their premium is subsidized. They have a 3,600 deductible and a 12,000 potential outofpocket maximum. If one of this group needed a jant re placement or hth